Inventor · Lake Forest, CA, US

Robert M. Fallone

24Patents
13h-index
30Co-inventors
73Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 12, 2008 → Oct 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8443167B1 Data storage device employing a run-length mapping table and a single address mapping table Physics 253 Active
US8521972B1 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage Physics 175 Active
US8706985B1 System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storage Physics 165 Active
US8775720B1 Hybrid drive balancing execution times for non-volatile semiconductor memory and disk Physics 161 Active
US8194340B1 Disk drive framing write data with in-line mapping data during write operations Physics 156 Active
US8082433B1 Disk drive employing boot disk space to expedite the boot operation for a host computer Physics 143 Active
US7900037B1 Disk drive maintaining multiple logs to expedite boot operation for a host computer Physics 137 Active
US8370683B1 System and method to reduce write splice failures Physics 134 Active
US8599510B1 Disk drive adjusting data track density based on write condition when writing to contiguous data tracks Physics 116 Active
US8531791B1 Methods for adaptive throttling of data refresh operations and disk drives implementing the same Physics 73 Active
US9063838B1 Data storage device shifting data chunks of alignment zone relative to sector boundaries Physics 63 Active
US9129628B1 Data management for data storage device with different track density regions Physics 62 Active
US8819367B1 Accelerated translation power recovery Physics 43 Active
US9268499B1 Hybrid drive migrating high workload data from disk to non-volatile semiconductor memory Physics 13 Active
US9383923B1 Write pointer management for a disk drive Physics 12 Active
US10140067B1 Data management for data storage device with multiple types of non-volatile memory media Physics 10 Active
US9959209B1 Data storage device adjusting command rate profile based on operating mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9189392B1 Opportunistic defragmentation during garbage collection Physics 8 Active
US9405668B1 Data storage device initialization information accessed by searching for pointer information Physics 5 Active
US9286079B1 Cache optimization of a data storage device based on progress of boot commands Physics 4 Active
US9268649B1 Disk drive with recent write streams list for data refresh determination Physics 1 Active
US9003101B1 Prioritized access for media with heterogeneous access rates Physics 1 Active
US8996839B1 Data storage device aligning partition to boundary of sector when partition offset correlates with offset of write commands Physics 0 Active
US9263088B2 Data management for a data storage device using a last resort zone Physics 0 Active

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